On-line wheel cleaning device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10182645-B2
Application number	US-201615172444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2016
Priority date	Jun 3, 2015
Publication date	Jan 22, 2019
Grant date	Jan 22, 2019

Abstract

The present invention discloses an on-line wheel cleaning device, having a frame, a cylinder, a motor, a brush chassis, radial brushes, a spline shaft and a spline housing, wherein a sensor enables a wheel to be primarily positioned; a clamping cylinder enables two left clamping rollers and right clamping rollers to clamp the wheel by way of gears, left racks, right racks and a guide rail; a jacking cylinder is used for jacking the brush chassis and the radial brushes through the spline shaft and enabling the brush chassis and the radial brushes to touch a flange plate and a center hole of the wheel, respectively; the motor drives a first belt pulley, the spline housing and the spline shaft to rotate through a synchronous belt and a first belt pulley; an adjusting cylinder jacks up an apex to drive the four radial brushes to move outwards respectively.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An on-line wheel cleaning device, comprising: a frame, a jacking cylinder, a bottom plate, a transition end cover, a rotation ring, a spline shaft, a first belt wheel, a spline housing, a bearing seat, a middle plate, a piston, a cylinder rod, an end cover, an apex, a brush chassis, slide blocks, radial brushes, left clamping rollers, left gear racks, a left sliding plate, a guide rail, a cushion block, gears, a right sliding plate, right gear racks, right clamping rollers, a synchronous belt, a second belt wheel, a motor, a clamping cylinder, a spring and a pull ring,
wherein the bottom plate is arranged within the frame and located at a lower part of the frame;
wherein the jacking cylinder is fixed below the bottom plate and is fixedly provided with the transition end cover at its output end, the transition end cover being above the bottom plate;
wherein the spline shaft has a lower end that is fixed in the rotation ring through a bearing and the rotation ring is fixed in the transition end cover;
wherein the piston engages an inner wall of a top end of the spline shaft and is fixedly provided with the cylinder rod, and the piston and the end cover jointly form an adjusting cylinder;
wherein the spline shaft engages the spline housing, and the first belt wheel is fixed below the spline housing;
wherein the spline housing is fixed in the bearing seat through a bearing and the bearing seat is mounted below the middle plate;
wherein the apex is fixed at a top end of the cylinder rod, and a conical part of the apex engages four slide blocks;
wherein the brush chassis is fixed at the top end of the spline shaft and four radial brushes are respectively fixed on the four slide blocks;
wherein an inner side of each of the four radial brushes is connected with one end of one spring, and the other ends of the four springs are connected with the pull ring at the same time;
wherein the motor is fixedly provided with the second belt wheel at its output end and is fixed on a side face of the frame, and the synchronous belt is simultaneously connected with the first belt wheel and the second belt wheel;
wherein two left clamping rollers and two left gear racks are all fixed below the left sliding plate and the left sliding plate is fixed below a top of the frame through the guide rail and the cushion block; two right gear racks and right clamping rollers are all fixed below the right sliding plate; the right sliding plate is also fixed below the top of the frame through the guide rail and the cushion block; two gears fixed below the top of the frame are simultaneously meshed with the left gear racks and the right gear racks; and the clamping cylinder is also fixed below the top of the frame, and an output end of the clamping cylinder is connected with the right sliding plate; and
wherein the spline shaft is able to drive the adjusting cylinder so that the adjusting cylinder jacks up the apex to drive the four radial brushes to move outwards respectively, in order to change the radial size of the radial brushes.

2. The on-line wheel cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the left clamping rollers and the right clamping rollers are inverted cones in shape.

3. The on-line wheel cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the radial brush comprises four quadrant radial brushes including a first radial brush, a second radial brush, a third radial brush and a fourth radial brush.

4. The on-line wheel cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the slide blocks are T-shaped and engage four T-shaped slide ways in the brush chassis.

Assignees

• Citic Dicastal Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xue Bowen
• Chen Guangcai
• Guo Jiandong
• Liu Weidong
• Zheng Yao

Classifications

• A46B13/02 Primary

  power-driven {carriers} · CPC title

• B08B1/32 Primary

  using rotary cleaning members · CPC title

• B08B13/00

  Accessories or details of general applicability for machines or apparatus for cleaning · CPC title

• B08B1/12

  Brushes · CPC title